which 7900gt

[monkey999]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150144
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130032
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127098\

lol so which one or a 1800xt does it realy give better quality which would just be this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102007R
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102008

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[the_pulp]

go for XFX.they are the best.bfg sucks :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

Go with the eVGA KO edition - a sweet black cooler that covers the memory too, and you can get free copies of Hitman: Blood Money and HL2: Episode 1. I have the KO (non-overclocked) and idles around 50 degrees C, full load no higher than 61C on all stock cooling, I haven't even replaced the stock grease with AS5 yet.

 

[pauldh]

Personally, I would (and actually did) go for the Sapphire X1800XT with the rebate. IMO it's a tad better performer and was easily the better choice for my upgrade reasons (mainly Oblivion). Of the 7900GT's I'd buy the eVGA as it's clocked the highest of the four at a low price and eVGA has been pretty good in dealling with the 7900 burning issues.

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

...and eVGA has been pretty good in dealling with the 7900 burning issues.

And by that you mean not having any...

 

[necroshine67]

paul is right about the x1800x and better picture.
if you're going to get a 7900 though go with the evga, that is a new make of the card, the other brands have a high rate of rma's meaning bad cards. evga 7900's have a new type of memory and diffrent voltage so it's safe.
plus evga offers a step up program. within 90 days if a newer card comes out, like a dx10 card you can ship it back, pay the diffrence in the price of the two cards, and get a better card and not loose the money you spent on the first card.

 

[Heart5678]

just an fyi if you get a 7900GT. If you read some of the advanced hardware-discussion forums, you'll find that the problem's people have been having with the cards is due to the manufactures not putting powerful-enough voltage regulators to power the memory chips/GPU, or that they didn't put heatsinks on the existing voltage regulators (cooling and power draw are related). So to be safe, I suggest you mount some small heatsinks on these chips on the back of the card (~$10), which should greatly decrease the chance you have to RMA it, and also allow you to safely overclock the thing crazy without melting the regulators. Do some reading up here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=94177&page=11

 

[pauldh]

...and eVGA has been pretty good in dealling with the 7900 burning issues.

And by that you mean not having any...
No that's not at all what I meant. eVGA has had loads of issues with 7900GT's burning/artifacting/etc. Matter of fact, it's just recently that a new batch is supposed to be fixed of the issues. BFG and XFX are no exceptions to the issue either. But eVGA was to my knowledge the first to admit the problem and work hard to fix it.

Shoot, some people are on their fourth RMA'd card. The evga forums are loaded with complaints, enought so an eVGA tech started this thread: http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17364

They even have a 9 page sticky going tallying the bad cards because they had so many new faulty 7900GT topics.
http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15366


This may not apply to you, but i am still amazed at some NV-fan friends of mine who won't admit to a 7900GT problem and just claim it's overclockers killing their cards. As if all the forums loaded with complaints and articles like [H]'s are made up.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2OSwyLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Anyway, I am happy eVGA was out of 7900GT's from the start or I might have traded up my perfectly good 7800GT for a lemon of a 7900GT.

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

Well, I just got everything about two weeks ago - I might have a better batch. I haven't googled the MOFSETS on the card or checked to see what kind of memory it has, but I've had no problems with my non-overclocked KO edition - with the sweet black cooler.

This weekend I might replace the stock paste with AS5, haven't decided.

 

[pauldh]

Yeah, I'd say it's a small percentage of them that have been bad. And hopefully that's a thing of the past soon anyway. But it still has been a real problem and obviously a larger than normal RMA ratio compared to other cards. I never remember reading complaints about the 7800's like you see with the 7900's.

 

[pengwin]

go for XFX.they are the best.bfg sucks :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

.....BFG does not suck.

 

[pauldh]

with the sweet black cooler

I took a fancy to mine too; Shiny and Purty.